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Russians are not the only people subjected to propaganda about the crisis in Ukraine.

In the mainstream U.S. press, the bias is more subtle and perhaps largely unintentional.

Many American reporters covering the crisis reflexively take on the viewpoint of American Empire.

Not because anyone orders them to do so, but rather because deeply rooted ideology

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